A friend and colleague, Brian Caulfield, has written a touching story about Cardinals' pitcher Trever Miller and faith in the face of adversity over at Fathers For Good.Brian told me that FFG, which is an initiative of the Knights of Columbus, is "seeking to bring attention to good Catholic role models in sports for parents to show to their children, since sports plays such a powerful role in our culture." Please check out his story and be inspired:
By Brian Caulfield
As he begins his 12th season as a major league pitcher, Trever Miller is familiar with baseball’s performance measurements: earned run average, strikeout-walk ratio, winning percentage, saves and a dozen other metrics. A lanky lefty reliever with the St. Louis Cardinals, who specializes in retiring left-handed batters in late innings, he even holds a major league record for consecutive mound appearances without a win or loss decision. Having pitched for five teams, the 37-year-old hurler’s lifetime record is a respectable 18-16.
But as a father of a child who was born with two holes in her heart and a genetic disorder so rare that it doesn’t have a name, Miller measures success in life in more basic ways these days – the next breath, a winning smile, a new movement from his daughter Grace. She was not supposed to leave the hospital after birth yet turns a miraculous 7 years old in June.
“Faith goes with the territory,” Miller said last month during the Cardinals’ spring training in Florida. “Grace is my hero and my inspiration. She has overcome more physical tests than I ever have in a lifetime of baseball.”
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Photo credit: AP Photos/Nati Harnik
